How far can we push the needle? — 2020! Yes, that was when we first heard her name -> Lina Khan. Right up to that point, we used to hear of the occasional congressional hearings of big tech companies where a few of these giants were hauled before a panel to defend themselves against various allegations Lina Khan…

On a late Friday evening I returned to my apartment hoping for a quiet evening of binging on my favorite Netflix series only to find uninvited guests at home squabbling and almost coming to blows over their turn to play the X-Box. I poured myself a drink and sat on…

A fortnight ago I received a call from the convenor of a blockchain conference I was supposed to attend. She told me that they had upgraded my conference ticket to VIP status. …

The glaring sun beat upon the island state of Singapore. Located close to the equator one has to get used to the sweltering heat if you step outside. The traffic discipline on Singapore roads is something you just can’t miss as a tourist. I stood under the shade of a…

Why he’s never going to fold — Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch of Jewish origin, famed for being the owner of the football club Chelsea, at the peak of the ongoing Russian- Ukrainian conflict decided to dock his million-dollar yacht in Turkey. Now, why on earth he would choose Turkey of all places is an easy guess. …

Now watch how they light up the sky — Nancy Pelosi may have wanted to go out in style. What better way for her than to visit a renegade republic whose cries for democracy have earned them the ire of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Now she has clearly left her mark on the political calculus between the…

Are there 10 sides to every story? — It was the middle of the working day. I bent forward with a frown on my face, hearing the triple-buzz on WhatsApp. I was startled when I saw an acquaintance of mine (Kiran) re-tweet a picture that he had seen on Twitter. He then forwarded that tweet to me, accompanied…

Or, a political calculation gone haywire — Peacekeeping forces!! That was the first time I heard about them. They were from NATO. Deployed initially during the Balkan war in the ’90s. Scenes of tanks rolling into the streets of Serbia and Bosnia with CNN’s Christian Amanpour mic’d up in the foreground. …

Should we leave all out-of-the-box solutions to Elon Musk? — Yeah, the planet is warming — tell me something new. I have heard it before, you tune in to CNN and all you see are experts talking about how we can pivot away from fossil fuels. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria a few months ago on his GPS weekly show featured the…